SRA International has been awarded a contract by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to provide a low cost ground surveillance (LCGS) solution for small- to medium-sized airports in the National Airspace System (NAS). The multiple-award contract has a ceiling value of more than $20 million over five years. One of the FAA’s top priorities is to reduce the risk of runway incursions in the NAS while maximizing operational efficiency and ensuring airport capacity. The LCGS program is one of several initiatives aimed at reducing the number and severity of incidents at close to 500 U.S. towered airports where current airport surface detection equipment (i.e. ASDE-3 and ASDE-X) is too expensive to deploy. LCGS would provide an added layer of safety by giving air traffic controllers basic ground surveillance for aircraft and vehicles operating on runways and adjacent taxiways. LCGS would also provide a foundational platform for future runway safety applications and systems.
 
 SRA’s LCGS solution, which has an intuitive and configurable ATC computer-human interface (CHI), is easily scalable and adaptable to accommodate varying airport sizes and runway configurations in a range of visibility and weather conditions. SRA’s solution provides the FAA and airport authorities with a platform that can cost-effectively expand to meet their future requirements, such as the need to integrate ADS-B information, airfield lighting control systems, traffic information system–broadcast (TIS-B) and multiltateration surveillance technologies.